Our story
TWO PRODUCERS.ONE FESTIVAL.
Fringe Management LLC is a theatre management and production company. We specialise in consulting for live stage artists across every aspect of their productions — venue booking, production design, stage management, marketing and accommodation.
We’ve produced together in Hollywood, London and New York, and taken award-winning shows to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for the last 24 years — building deep relationships with the programmers at Assembly Rooms, Pleasance, Gilded Balloon and The Space along the way.
Co-founder · Edinburgh
Nigel Miles-Thomas
Actor, director, producer — 40 years in theatre practice.
Nigel has been in over 100 productions worldwide including London’s West End and Steven Berkoff’s company. He has directed Zsa Zsa Gabor in Hollywood and still lives to tell the tale. On television he has performed in Dr Who, The Professionals, Minder, The Dick Emery Show, The Story of English, Middlemarch, and was Mr Davies the PE teacher in BBC’s Grange Hill.
In association with Sheraton, Le Meridien and Shangri La Hotels across the Far East and Middle East, Nigel has produced and performed with Roger Lloyd Pack, Susan Penhaligon, Lorraine Chase, Simply Barbra, and — most recently — a hugely successful collaboration with Richard Shelton as Sinatra, Apphia Campbell as Nina Simone and Oliver Harris as the young Elvis Presley.
Outside theatre, Nigel runs coaching and skills-practice programmes across public, private and voluntary sectors — currently with the British Army on their E&D programme and the Horizons leadership programme in India. He is consultant Artistic Director of The Garnett Foundation, and is resuming his role of Sherlock Holmes in Sherlock Holmes: The Last Act, touring through 2026 and beyond.
Co-founder · Los Angeles
Michael Blaha
Entertainment attorney, law professor, and stage and film producer.
Mike has produced almost 100 shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe as Nigel’s partner — including runt (Fringe First; Sony Radio Academy Award for Best Drama), Night in November (Best Actor), Sabotage: In Fine Form (Perrier Best Newcomer nominee), This Is So Not About The Simpsons starring Harry Shearer, and multiple sold-out 5-star runs including Trickboxing, Bad Arm, A Very British Lesbian and Agatha is Missing.
At the Hollywood Fringe he has produced Richard Parker (Best International Production), Nigerian Spam Scam Scam (Encore Award), and Afghanistan is Not Funny (Best International Production). Other US credits include Bukowsical (NY Fringe Best Musical), runt across Los Angeles, Chicago, Minneapolis and New York, and Latina Christmas Special Off-Broadway.
Mike produced the worldwide comedy sensation The Pajama Men — The Times Double Act of the Year, Best Comedy at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival — including sold-out runs at London’s Soho Theatre. He was a founding producer of Sci-Fest LA, the Festival of One Act Science Fiction Plays.
Film producing credits include Chi Girl (Slamdance Grand Jury Prize), The Dogwalker (Cinefest Best New Director), Tropicalia (Telluride), and the short The Legend of Beaver Dam (Honorable Mention, Sundance). Mike sits on the boards of New Musicals, Inc., Impro Theatre and Filmmakers’ Alliance.
